Editing April 14 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
*[[43 BC]] &ndash; Legions loyal to the [[Roman Senate]], commanded by [[Gaius Vibius Pansa Caetronianus|Gaius Pansa]], defeat the forces of [[Mark Antony]] in the [[Battle of Forum Gallorum]].{{sfn|Cicero|loc=''Phil.'' XIV, 37}}
*[[AD 69|69]] &ndash; [[Vitellius]], commanding [[Rhine]]-based armies, defeats Roman emperor [[Otho]] in the [[Battle of Bedriacum#First Battle of Bedriacum|First Battle of Bedriacum]] to take power over [[Rome]].<ref>{{cite book|author=E. T. Salmon|title=A History of the Roman World: From 30 BC to AD 138|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bQ6AAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA204|date=21 August 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-96341-6|pages=204}}</ref>
* [[966]] &ndash; Following his marriage to the Christian [[Doubravka of Bohemia]], the [[paganism|pagan]] ruler of the [[Polans (western)|Polans]], [[Mieszko I|Mieszko&nbsp;I]], [[Christianization of Poland#Baptism|converts to Christianity]], an event considered to be the [[History of Poland during the Piast dynasty|founding of the Polish state]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Radio Free Europe|author2=Radio Free Europe. Research and Analysis Department|title=The Pope in Poland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FQ1pAAAAIAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Radio Free Europe Research|page=97}}</ref>
* [[972]] &ndash; [[Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor|Otto II]], Co-[[Holy Roman Emperor|Emperor]] of the [[Holy Roman Empire]], marries Byzantine princess [[Theophanu]]. She is crowned empress by Pope [[Pope John XIII|John XIII]] in Rome the same day.<ref>{{cite book|last=Leyser|first=Karl|title=Communications and Power in Medieval Europe: The Carolingian and Ottoman Centuries|editor-last=Reuter|editor-first=Timothy|location=London|publisher=Hambledon Press|date=1994|isbn=9781852850135|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=efy4NAcXOSkC|page=156}}</ref>
*[[1395]] &ndash; [[Tokhtamysh–Timur war]]: At the [[Battle of the Terek River]], [[Timur]] defeats the army of the [[Golden Horde]], beginning the khanate's permanent military decline.<ref>{{cite book|last=Buell|first=Paul D.|title=Historical Dictionary of the Mongol World Empire|location=Lanham, Md.|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|date=2018|isbn=9781538111369|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y38YAwAAQBAJ|page=265}}</ref>
*[[1471]] &ndash; In England, the [[House of York|Yorkists]] under [[Edward IV of England|Edward IV]] defeat the [[House of Lancaster|Lancastrians]] under the [[Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick|Earl of Warwick]] at the [[Battle of Barnet]]; the Earl is killed and Edward resumes the throne.<ref>{{cite book|author=William Seymour|title=Battles in Britain and Their Political Background: 1066-1547|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6HdOAQAAIAAJ|year=1975|publisher=Hippocrene Books|isbn=978-0-88254-370-3|page=5}}</ref>
*[[1561]] &ndash; A [[1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg|celestial phenomenon]] is reported over [[Nuremberg]], described as an aerial battle.<ref>{{cite web|author1=Frank Johnson|title=Nuremburg 1561 UFO "Battle" Debunked|url=http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/nuremburg-ufo-battle-debunked/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121214172708/http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/nuremburg-ufo-battle-debunked/|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 14, 2012|website=Ancient Aliens Debunked|access-date=26 January 2017|date=December 12, 2012}}</ref>

===1601–1900===
*[[1639]] &ndash; [[Thirty Years' War]]: Forces of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] and [[Electorate of Saxony]] are defeated by the Swedes at the [[Battle of Chemnitz]], ending the military effectiveness of the Saxon army for the rest of the war and allowing the Swedes to advance into [[Bohemia]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Watts|first=Tim J.|chapter=Chemnitz, Battle of (April 14, 1639)|title=Germany at War: 400 years of Military History|editor-last=Zabecki|editor-first=David T.|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2014|isbn=9781598849806|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rCWMBQAAQBAJ|page=252}}</ref>
*[[1775]] &ndash; The [[Pennsylvania Abolition Society|Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage]], the first [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolition]] society in North America, is organized in [[Philadelphia]] by [[Benjamin Franklin]] and [[Benjamin Rush]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Sinha|first=Manisha|title=The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition|location=New Haven|publisher=Yale University Press|date=2017|isbn=9780300227116|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Bh8CwAAQBAJ|page=72}}</ref>
*[[1793]] &ndash; The French troops led by [[Léger-Félicité Sonthonax]] defeat the slaves settlers in the [[Siege of Port-au-Prince (1793)|Siege of Port-au-Prince]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Schœlcher|first=Victor|author-link=Victor Schœlcher|title=Vie de Toussaint Louverture|publisher=[[Éditions Karthala]]|orig-year=1889|year=1982|language=French|page=71}}</ref>
*[[1816]] &ndash; [[Bussa's rebellion#Bussa|Bussa]], a slave in British-ruled [[Barbados]], [[Bussa's rebellion|leads a slave rebellion]], for which he is remembered as the country's first national hero.<ref>{{cite book|author=Junius P. Rodriguez|title=Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h86YKfO-9RgC&pg=PA90|year=2007|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-33272-2|pages=90}}</ref>
*[[1849]] &ndash; Hungary [[Hungarian Declaration of Independence|declares itself independent]] of [[Austrian Empire|Austria]] with [[Lajos Kossuth]] as its leader.<ref>{{cite book|last=Tucker|first=Spencer C.|title=The Roots and Consequences of Independence Wars: Conflicts That Changed World History|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2018|isbn=9781440855986|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r59MDwAAQBAJ|page=178}}</ref>
*[[1858]] &ndash; The [[1858 Christiania fire]] severely destroys several city blocks near [[Stortorvet]] in [[Oslo|Christiania]], Norway, and about 1,000 people lose their homes.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Branner |encyclopedia=[[Oslo byleksikon]] |editor1=Arstal, Aksel |editor1-link=Aksel Arstal|editor2=Just, Carl|editor2-link=Carl Just|publisher=Aschehoug |location=Oslo|edition=2|year=1966 |orig-date=1938 |language=Norwegian }}</ref>
*[[1865]] &ndash; U.S. President [[Assassination of Abraham Lincoln|Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth]]; Lincoln dies the following day.<ref>{{cite book|author=Carolyn Lawton Harrell|title=When the Bells Tolled for Lincoln: Southern Reaction to the Assassination|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uRdfSQHLaPoC&pg=PA75|year=1997|publisher=Mercer University Press|isbn=978-0-86554-587-8|pages=75}}</ref>
* 1865 &ndash; [[William H. Seward]], the [[United States Secretary of State|U.S. Secretary of State]], and his family are [[Assassination of Abraham Lincoln#Powell attacks Seward|attacked at home]] by [[Lewis Powell (conspirator)|Lewis Powell]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=James J. Barnes|author2=Patience P. Barnes|title=The American Civil War Through British Eyes: February 1863-December 1865|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rUS7OZzDXzIC&pg=PA315|year=2003|publisher=Kent State University Press|isbn=978-0-87338-831-3|pages=315–}}</ref>
*[[1881]] &ndash; The [[Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight]] occurs in [[El Paso, Texas]].<ref>{{cite book|title=American Cowboy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YOoCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA152|date=November–December 2007|publisher=Active Interest Media, Inc.|pages=152}}</ref>
*[[1890]] &ndash; The [[Organization of American States|Pan-American Union]] is founded by the First [[Pan-American Conference|International Conference of American States]] in Washington, D.C.<ref>{{cite book|last=Manger|first=William|title=Inter-American Highlights, 1890-1940|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|date=1940|oclc=1193999715|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9VpqAAAAMAAJ|page=3}}</ref>
*[[1894]] &ndash; The first ever commercial [[film|motion picture]] house opens in New York City, United States. It uses ten [[Kinetoscope]]s, devices for peep-show viewing of films.<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles Musser|title=The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IEUMWToGOtUC&pg=PA81|date=4 May 1994|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-08533-6|pages=81}}</ref>
*[[1895]] &ndash; The [[1895 Ljubljana earthquake]], both the most and last destructive earthquake in the area, occurs.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kajzer |first=Janez |title=S tramovi podprto mesto |publisher=Mladinska Knjiga |year=1983 |location=Ljubljana |pages=84–164 |language=sl}}</ref>
*[[1900]] &ndash; The world's fair [[Exposition Universelle (1900)|Exposition Universelle]] opens in Paris.<ref>{{cite book|last=Burbank|first=Richard|title=Twentieth Century Music|location=New York City, USA|publisher=Facts on File Publication, New York City, NY|year=1984|isbn=0-87196-464-3|page=13}}|</ref>

===1901–present===
*[[1906]] &ndash; The first meeting of the [[Azusa Street Revival]], which will launch [[Pentecostalism]] as a worldwide movement, is held in Los Angeles.
*[[1908]] &ndash; [[Hauser Dam]], a [[steel dam]] on the [[Missouri River]] in [[Montana]], fails, sending a surge of water {{convert|25|to|30|ft}} high downstream.
*[[1909]] &ndash; Muslims in the [[Ottoman Empire]] begin [[Adana massacre|a massacre]] of [[Armenians]] in [[Adana]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Suny |first=Ronald Grigor |title="They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide |title-link=They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else |date=22 March 2015 |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |isbn=978-1-4008-6558-1 |pages=171–173 |language=en |author-link=Ronald Grigor Suny}}</ref>
*[[1912]] &ndash; The British passenger liner {{RMS|Titanic}} hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic and begins to sink.
*[[1929]] &ndash; The [[1929 Monaco Grand Prix|inaugural Monaco Grand Prix]] takes place in the [[Monaco|Principality of Monaco]]. [[William Grover-Williams]] wins driving a [[Bugatti Type 35]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=1929 GRAND PRIX SEASON -|url=http://www.kolumbus.fi/leif.snellman/gp2902.htm|access-date=2021-05-17|website=www.kolumbus.fi|archive-date=2021-02-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213091528/http://www.kolumbus.fi/leif.snellman/gp2902.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[1931]] &ndash; The [[Second Spanish Republic]] is proclaimed and [[King]] [[Alfonso XIII]] goes to exile. Meanwhile, in [[Barcelona]], [[Francesc Macià]] proclaims the [[Catalan Republic (1931)|Catalan Republic]].<ref>{{cite web |title=República Catalana |url=https://www.enciclopedia.cat/EC-GEC-0054960.xml |website=enciclopèdia.cat |access-date=6 October 2019}}</ref>
*[[1935]] &ndash; The [[Black Sunday (storm)|Black Sunday dust storm]], considered one of the worst storms of the [[Dust Bowl]], sweeps across [[Oklahoma Panhandle|the Oklahoma]] and [[Texas Panhandle|Texas]] panhandles and neighboring areas.
*[[1940]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: [[Royal Marines]] land in [[Namsos (town)|Namsos]], Norway, preceding a larger force which will arrive two days later.
*[[1941]] &ndash; World War II: German and Italian forces [[Siege of Tobruk|attack Tobruk]], Libya.
*[[1944]] &ndash; [[1944 Bombay explosion|Bombay explosion]]: A massive explosion in [[Mumbai|Bombay]] harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued at 20&nbsp;million pounds.
*[[1945]] &ndash; [[Razing of Friesoythe]]: The [[4th Canadian Division|4th Canadian (Armoured) Division]] deliberately destroys the German town of [[Friesoythe]] on the orders of Major General [[Christopher Vokes]].
*[[1958]] &ndash; The [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] satellite [[Sputnik 2]] falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a [[Soviet space dogs|female dog]] named [[Laika]], who likely lived only a few hours.
*[[1967]] &ndash; [[Gnassingbé Eyadéma]] overthrows [[Nicolas Grunitzky]] and installs himself as the new [[List of presidents of Togo|President of Togo]], a title he will hold for the next 38 years.
*[[1978]] &ndash; [[1978 Georgian demonstrations|Tbilisi demonstrations]]: Thousands of [[Georgia (country)|Georgians]] demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the [[Georgian language]].<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/inside/publications/0419dissertation.pdf|last=Cornell|first=Svante E.|author-link=Svante Cornell|title=Autonomy and Conflict: Ethnoterritoriality and Separatism in the South Caucasus – Cases in Georgia. Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Report No. 61|page=150|year=2002|isbn=91-506-1600-5|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630141309/http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/inside/publications/0419dissertation.pdf|archive-date=30 June 2007|publisher=[[Uppsala University]]|access-date=18 August 2021}}</ref>
*[[1979]] &ndash; The [[Progressive Alliance of Liberia]] stages a protest, without a permit, against an increase in rice prices proposed by the government, with clashes between protestors and the police resulting in over 70 deaths and over 500 injuries.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dunn|first1= Elwood D.|last2=Beyan|first2=Amos J.|last3=Burrowes|first3=Carl Patrick|date=2000|title=Historical Dictionary of Liberia |trans-title=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qt0_RrW8ghkC|language=English |location= |isbn=9781461659310|pages=23–24|publisher= Scarecrow Press}}</ref>
*[[1981]] &ndash; [[STS-1]]: The first operational [[Space Shuttle]], ''[[Space Shuttle Columbia|Columbia]]'' completes its first test flight.
*[[1986]] &ndash; The heaviest [[hail]]stones ever recorded, each weighing {{convert|1|kg|lb}}, fall on the [[Gopalganj District, Bangladesh|Gopalganj district of Bangladesh]], killing 92.
*[[1988]] &ndash; The {{USS|Samuel B. Roberts|FFG-58|6}} strikes a [[naval mine|mine]] in the [[Persian Gulf]] during [[Operation Earnest Will]].
* 1988 &ndash; In a [[United Nations]] ceremony in [[Geneva]], Switzerland, the [[Soviet Union]] signs [[Geneva Accords (1988)|an agreement]] pledging to [[Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan|withdraw its troops]] from [[Democratic Republic of Afghanistan|Afghanistan]].
*[[1991]] &ndash; The [[Georgia (country)|Republic of Georgia]] introduces the post of [[President of Georgia|President]] following its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
*[[1994]] &ndash; In a [[friendly fire]] incident during [[Operation Provide Comfort]] in northern [[Iraq]], two [[United States Air Force|U.S. Air Force]] aircraft mistakenly [[1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident|shoot-down]] two [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] helicopters, killing 26 people.
*[[1997]] &ndash; [[Murder of Pai Hsiao-yen|Pai Hsiao-yen]], daughter of Taiwanese artiste [[Pai Bing-bing]] is kidnapped on her way to school, preceding her murder.<ref>{{cite news |author1=劉峻谷 |author2=唐復年 |author3=鄭國樑 |author4=曾增勳 |date=27 April 1997 |title=白曉燕命案始末 |trans-title=Pai Bing-bing's daughter kidnapped |newspaper=[[United Daily News]] |url=http://issue.udn.com/FOCUSNEWS/WHITE/a/a1-1.htm |url-status=dead |access-date=September 29, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207102458/http://issue.udn.com/FOCUSNEWS/WHITE/a/a1-1.htm |archive-date=February 7, 2012 |quote=十七歲的白曉燕是白冰冰的獨生女，就讀林口鄉醒吾中學二年級，十四日上午七時四十五分從林口鄉忠孝路家中出門上學，但並沒有到學校。}}</ref>
*[[1999]] &ndash; [[NATO]] mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic [[Albanians|Albanian]] refugees. [[Serbia and Montenegro|Yugoslav]] officials say 75 people were killed.
* 1999 &ndash; A [[1999 Sydney hailstorm|severe hailstorm]] strikes [[Sydney]], Australia causing [[Australian dollar|A$]]2.3&nbsp;billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
*[[2002]] &ndash; [[Venezuela]]n president [[Hugo Chávez]] returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.
*[[2003]] &ndash; The [[Human Genome Project]] is completed with 99% of the [[human genome]] sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
* 2003 &ndash; U.S. troops in [[Baghdad]] capture [[Muhammad Zaidan|Abu Abbas]], leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner {{MS|Achille Lauro}} in [[1985]].
*[[2005]] &ndash; The [[Oregon Supreme Court]] nullifies marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples a year earlier by [[Multnomah County, Oregon|Multnomah County]].
*[[2006]] &ndash; [[2006 Jama Masjid bombings|Twin blasts]] triggered by crude bombs during [[Asr prayer]] in the [[Jama Masjid, Delhi|Jama Masjid]] mosque in Delhi injure 13 people.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/14/world/blasts-at-famous-india-mosque-injure-13.html][https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Terror-Friday-Twin-blasts-rock-Delhis-Jama-Masjid/articleshow/1490834.cms][https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Explosion_rocks_Jama_Masjid_in_India][https://www.rediff.com/news/2006/apr/14masjid.htm Two blasts rock Delhi's Jama Masjid]</ref>
*[[2014]] &ndash; [[April 2014 Nyanya bombing|Two bombs detonate]] at a bus station in [[New Nyanya|Nyanya]], Nigeria, killing at least 88 people and injuring hundreds. [[Boko Haram]] claims responsibility.<ref>{{cite web |date=14 April 2014 |title=Nigeria violence: More than 70 killed in Abuja bus blast |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27018751 |access-date=18 May 2023 |website=[[BBC Online|BBC.com]] |publisher=[[BBC News]]}}</ref>
* 2014 &ndash; Boko Haram [[Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping|abducts 276 girls]] from a school in [[Chibok]], Nigeria.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nigeria Chibok abductions: What we know |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-32299943 |website=BBC News |access-date=13 February 2021 |date=8 May 2017}}</ref>
*[[2016]] &ndash; The [[2016 Kumamoto earthquakes#April 14 foreshock|foreshock of a major earthquake]] occurs in [[Kumamoto]], Japan.
*[[2022]] &ndash; [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]]: [[Sinking of the Moskva|The Russian warship ''Moskva'' sinks]].<ref name="Ljunggren">{{cite news |last1=Ljunggren |first1=David |date=13 April 2022 |title=Russia says ammunition blast damages flagship of Black Sea fleet – Interfax |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-major-ship-black-sea-fleet-badly-damaged-blast-interfax-2022-04-13/ |access-date=14 April 2022 |archive-date=14 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220414011954/https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-major-ship-black-sea-fleet-badly-damaged-blast-interfax-2022-04-13/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[2023]] &ndash; The [[Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer]] (JUICE) is launched by the [[European Space Agency]].<ref>{{cite web|title=ESA's Juice lifts off on quest to discover secrets of Jupiter's icy moons|website=The European Space Agency|url=https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice/ESA_s_Juice_lifts_off_on_quest_to_discover_secrets_of_Jupiter_s_icy_moons|date=14 April 2023|access-date=16 April 2023}}</ref>
*[[2024]] &ndash; [[2024 Persian Gulf floods|Flooding in the Persian Gulf]] starts, killing 19 in [[Oman]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-04-16 |title=Dubai airport chaos as UAE and Oman reel from deadly storms |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68831408 |access-date=2024-04-19 |language=en-GB}}</ref>